The focus always seems to be on short stories and then the code that goes with them tends to have units tests.
What other areas or levels should I be testing in?
The context is for SaS (Software as ...

After picking up some priority backlogs, what exactly is the role of a QA tester? I mean what are the actual steps, starting from understanding the requirements and types of documentation if needed?
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I have worked in incident management and code analysis, as well as testing (manual, functional, and regression).
I have a new offer as a QA consultant.
Automation testing, understanding requirements ...

Currently I am the only one responsible for the quality of the company's products, so when I get a requirements elicitation, I don't have time to do all the documentation, i.e. I get the LR and I've ...

My boss and i had a meeting today and the topic was concerned with downtime for dev or QA. We currently work in an Agile environment. My boss wants to start working on dev for the next cycle while QA ...

We are integrating with an out sourcing team to start automating our regular test cases
What is the best type of documents to explain our scenarios to the other team?
we want to explain to them how ...

I have been doing alot of research into Agile Testing including reading Agile Testing: A Practical guide... and it seems that the consensus is BTS(Bug tracking systems) are bad for Agile teams because ...

Our organisation and clients expects us to give a sort of test "certificate" for each release.
Each release consists of a couple of three/four weeks sprints, including testing efforts as:
Automated ...

How to handle the situation where communicated bugs by the qa are duplicated as new issues by members of the project other than qa? What is the role if qa in this situation?
Additional note: Time is ...

First of all ,sorry if post in wrong room, i confuse should write question in SQA room or academia room. But actually i think member in SQA have more experience about this, and will help.
I have to ...

I am involved in a project where Given-When-Then formatted stories are written by the Product Owner (in a web-based story repository / JIRA), then created by Developers, while system test automation ...

I have experience testing from a business perspective but I'm currently working in an system which is a small part of a bigger system, so I don't have a clear vision of the entire business value flow.
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I was recently promoted to QA lead on an agile team working with offshore testers and an onshore development team. What kind of things should I expect? Any helpful tips for how to be awesome at this? ...

I'm a new QS tester in a company in an Agile environment. During the sprint commit I was told that one of my tasks was going to be testing user stories? How exactly do you test something like that. If ...

In an agile environment, for sprints for small updates, what approaches to testing are recommended? Do we just do exploratory testing after the SUT has been built before releasing it or do we do both ...

I am raising a question I'm sure some of you had to tackle or will tackle soon. More and more software
projects are adopting the test automation approach. Test automation can be achieve in multiple ...

I wonder if anyone have experience of a tool for session-based testing?
Nowadays we use SharePoint lists where we can write down our session plus other relevant info about the session (requirement, ...

I am an ISTQB Foundation Certified Tester and am looking at attaining either the Certified Agile Tester (CAT) certification or the ISTQB Intermediate Certificate to add to my skills and experience to ...

I am currently working in a small agile team and I am trying to decide if a test plan is worth creating or if it is then what to include. Currently working on a story that I believe could do with some ...

I am in a small Agile development team with no automated testing. We use Scrumwise to keep up with development. The above answers address the question with automated tests and hardening testing at the ...

Question: for those of you who create Test Plans based on product area rather than per iteration, why? And for those of you who create new, fresh Test Plans based on your release cycle (iteration / ...

I'm currently working on a small team of a few developers, but even a small team of productive developers can develop a lot of functionality in one iteration (2 weeks in our case). We don't have a QA ...

As my company begins its first agile project, I'm wondering if it would be easier to have separate tasks for QA and development for each story/requirement. Is it a cleaner process or will the lack of ...

Recently, our QA department has been running bug hunts. Once a sprint all the teams do 10 min demos then they spend the whole day submitting bugs for a feature getting ready for release. They've been ...

What would you say was the role of a software tester in an agile environment?
Is it just testing and logging bugs or is it more important to work closely with the project architects and developers to ...

Ill try and set the scene for you all as best as I can.
I have been working as the sole Tester on a suite of 13 related applications which is the end result of 5 separate developers work. Basically ...

Our team is in an annoying situation: Our corporation is in a period of transition that will probably last another 3 to 6 months after a merger between two companies with very different philosophies. ...